고 성 | Goseong Choi

Of Shadow and the Stain

“Of Shadow and Stains” is a spiritual and metaphoric trace of loss and death in the mountains. When the winter comes to a harsh and unknown landscape, I observe the transition; what fades away and fills in. The absence, paradoxically, projects the presence of the life that belongs nowhere but everywhere. I am the witness of the shift and no longer the same person I was before. The photographic exploration compels me to distinguish what something means from what something is. And the woods reveals the blind spot in my consciousness. It provokes me to understand the darkness not as the emptiness but the fullness, as a matter, and I find less-falseness and honesty from it. The embracement extends to the continuity in consciousness when I gaze at the stars at night and read the non-linear timeline of universe and memory. I meditate, breath, and accept the uncertainty and mystery as it is. I become humble about what I know.